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🗓️ 8 July 2025
⏱️ 73 minutes
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This week’s caller is a mom of two young boys doing her best to face life head-on. Her oldest son is autistic and recently diagnosed with depression. She talks with Gethard about parenting a neurodivergent child, advocating in a world that doesn’t always get it, and staying grounded through it all with warmth, humor, and zero B.S.
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0:00.0 | Hello to everybody who needs to lose the phone case. |
0:07.4 | It's beautiful anonymous one hour. |
0:10.3 | One phone call. |
0:11.7 | No names. |
0:12.9 | No holds barred. |
0:16.9 | I'd rather go one-on-one. |
0:19.6 | I think it'll be more fun and and I'll get to know you, and you'll get to know me. |
0:27.0 | Hi, everybody. |
0:27.6 | If you don't love a long intro, I get it. |
0:30.4 | I do want to warn you the first few minutes of today's call, have some really severe audio issues. |
0:36.2 | Keep pushing through that. |
0:38.7 | You'll get to the good stuff. |
0:42.8 | If you want to skip the intro, you're going to want to skip about five and a half minutes ahead. |
0:45.0 | That'll put you right towards the beginning of the phone call. |
0:52.5 | Hi, everybody. My name's Chris Gathard. And it's such a joy to be here, bringing you another episode of Beautiful Anonymous, the show where we look at the human condition, one anonymous phone call at a time, often imitated. |
1:01.2 | But they can't, they can't do what we do. |
1:04.3 | They don't have this nine-year legacy. |
1:07.7 | They don't have this commitment to the ethics of this thing and the occasional wildness of this thing. |
1:16.5 | Before I tell you about this phone call today, I want to let you know that we are just about sold out of the color copies of the beautiful anonymous magazine. |
1:25.0 | Thanks to everybody's been buying them at chrisgatherd.bigartel.com. And by the time you hear this, they might be gone. And thanks |
1:35.8 | to everybody who's been getting them. Also, I want to just remind everybody, August 7th, |
1:41.3 | I'm doing a really big show in Jersey City, New Jersey. New Yorkers take the |
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